Dr. Hoover has discovered evidence of microfossils similar to Cyanobacteria, in freshly fractured slices of the interior surfaces of the Alais, Ivuna, and Orgueil CI1 carbonaceous meteorites…. The implications are that life is everywhere, and that life on Earth may have come from other planets.
via Journal of Cosmology.
“According to narrow-minded ideologues on both sides of the increasingly childish debate over net neutrality, Comcast’s infamous BitTorrent throttling is all about, well, net neutrality. But it’s not. It’s about Comcast lying to its consumers, the press, the FCC, and everyone else with even a passing interest in getting what they pay for.”
via Please ignore the net neutrality sideshow haunting Comcast’s BitTorrent bust • The Register.
“According to Public Knowledge, the Motion Picture Association of America is behind Feinstein’s language. The MPAA doesn’t like copyright infringement. And you can bet the child pornography bit was tossed in for added effect.”
via US lawmaker injects ISP throttle into Obama rescue package • The Register.
Every year numerous illegitimate patent applications make their way through the United States patent examination process without adequate review. The problem is particularly acute in the software and Internet fields where the history of prior inventions (often called prior art) is widely distributed and poorly documented.
A group of software vendors has published an open letter to president Obama encouraging the new administration to adopt open source software in the government’s IT infrastructure.
Here are ten of the hardest, coolest and I don’t know, let’s say “raddest” levels a ROM hack can provide.
via Unreality - Ten of the Coolest Hacked Super Mario Levels |.
“University of Utah researchers said their new nanotechnology can scan materials such as bones and tumor cells and the method might be used for detecting fatigue in materials such as carbon-fiber plastics.”
“When the government sets its sights on gaining a new, technologically-enabled ability to keep better tabs on suspected bad guys, they just don’t take “no” for an answer. They also apparently don’t take “yes, but with strict oversight” for an answer either.”
via Court: feds don’t need probable cause to track your physical location via cell grid.
Microsoft is giving cops free COFEE - a ‘magical’ USB drive designed to automatically collect/store personal information from a PC
“Let’s also be honest about something: young people are not stealing. They are sharing, like those who once made VCR recordings of TV shows for friends (a court-approved practice the industry originally opposed).”
“The Humber College seniors made contact with the International Space Station Monday with a radio system they designed and built themselves.”
via Students call space station with home-built radio - The Globe and Mail.
“The Humber College seniors made contact with the International Space Station Monday with a radio system they designed and built themselves.”
via Students call space station with home-built radio - The Globe and Mail.
YouTube - Cloning passport card RFIDs in bulk for under $250. Ethical hacker Chris Paget demonstrates a low-cost mobile device that surreptitiously reads and clones RFID tags embedded in United States passport cards and enhanced drivers’ licenses.
